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  1. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    In the last few days of the year 4 Little Grebes turned up (3 together) and a Chiffchaff heard. 2023 ended with a total of 102 species for the garden. 4 species were new; Shoveler seen as flyovers in three months of the year, Mediterranean Gull - a vocal summer-plumaged bird which I had seen...
  2. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    RH bird looks like a Brambling, at least from the BOC image.
  3. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Life settled down enough for me to have a lie in this morning as Mrs BH had gone out shopping with friends. Got dressed, made the bed (good boy), headed to the kitchen to make a coffee - a quick look out of the window, 4 birds on an aerial across the way, strange as nothing much sits on that...
  4. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Very remiss, not to have posted for 6 weeks, though the reality is I don’t have too much to post about. :-( Between lack of enthusiasm, wet weather and my first paid work in 6 years (a few days of farmland surveying) I’ve spent precious little time in the garden. Mid-November and I finally got...
  5. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Considering they breed less than 5km away, it’s surprising I don’t see them more often. But of course the birds I get over on viz-mig could be from considerably further away.
  6. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    A mixed bag with viz-mig lately, numbers very low, but a bit of variety. Yesterday was a good day. A low number of birds and species, but suddenly I heard a bird singing, then realised it was flying over. #99 Woodlark, in fact 2 together. A day earlier than my biggest party of 4 a few years...
  7. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Set the alarm for pre-dawn, with (moderately) high expectations, then promptly ignored it and laid in! There were birds passing over as soon as I got out of the front door. I wouldn’t say it was busy, but was reasonably varied. (List attached) The nicest thing was the number of Skylarks...
  8. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    It’s been a struggle for the last week. No real volume of migrants and little variation, however I have persisted and reaped some sort of rewards. Saturday saw the first #97 Reed Bunting of the year fly over. Yellowhammer and 3 Skylarks were the respectable back up. Most mornings are seeing a...
  9. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Viz-Mig has started up in recent days, nothing incredible but a couple of hundred Redwing, some Siskin and other Finches, a few Skylarks etc. Best of all was #96 Brambling this morning, coming in the 59th minute of my hours watch. It made me linger longer, but to little avail.
  10. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I mis-counted September and actually finished with 63 birds for the month, a shade above average - I thought you should know. 💁🏻‍♂️ This month has started slowly. However I did find a Water Vole in the garden this morning, the first for two years! It was quite near to where I’ve seen suspicious...
  11. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    With Westerlies if one sort or another all month, September did not set anything alight. Finished with 61 species (avg. 62.5) so not terrible but not great either. However one or two new species for September has pulled this month into first place for species richness over the last 6 years...
  12. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Yes, imitate was the wrong word. But they have a call that sounds quite like Marsh. I heard it this morning. Funnily enough I ran Merlin and it knew instantly it was Great Tit, but after a while it said I was hearing Marsh Tit. I don’t think I was.
  13. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Highlight yesterday was a 1CY Yellow-legged Gull. I get one/some most months, but for some strange reason I’ve never had on in September, in the 6 years I’ve been here. The day before the highlight was a Wood Mouse. You could say Autumn is a bit slow. Siskins and Meadow Pipits over most...
  14. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Indeed I do. Marsh Tit are probably heard/seen in my garden c.200 days/year. Great Tits do a fairly good imitation and even Grey Wagtail can sound a bit like them. I’m not hearing Marsh Tit in the video. Out of interest I ran it through Merlin (which is certainly not infallible) and all it came...
  15. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Give us a clue. We need to know what species we are meant to have more experience of! What do you hear?
  16. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    We need to swap gardens. 😉
  17. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Fairly quiet this morning. My latest, by a day, Willow Warbler was the highlight, but also Egyptian Goose was new for the month, after their summer break. This afternoon a 1 CY #95 Caspian Gull was a late addition to the yearlist, normally I would have had one by now. I have a previous...
  18. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Up and out early this morning, but greeted with this… Gave it about an hour but nothing moving overhead and nothing much moving in the garden. Decided to have a quick look in the last corner before going in for breakfast and bam! Something fly-catching. A Blue Tit. But hold on, what’s that...
  19. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    A quick catch up from the last 9 days: A Red Underwing proved very uncooperative when I gently poked it to reveal said under-wings. A Noctule Bat unwittingly photographed whilst trying to capture the Blue Moon, also a couple of unidentified bird species past the face of the moon. A couple...
  20. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    No, they are much closer than that. 😡
  21. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Not much of anything here, after the rain last night. However did see a Fox, for only the third time in over 5 years. Strange, as we have a Foxes den out back, so presumably breed in the garden. Unlike where we used to live in London, Foxes here are pretty much nocturnal, so perhaps to so...
  22. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    A Reed Warbler was the only thing out of the ordinary this morning. More likely in Spring or even Summer, though not breeding closer than about 1km. Only had them in Aug/Sep in one year. Still at least 1 Swift around and quite a flock of Hirundines, mobbing a Kestrel. Where are the Hobbies...
  23. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    I’m due one soon, or it will be too late, they are a Jul/Aug bird here.
  24. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Pretty lacklustre this morning, a reasonable number of birds but nothing to get the juices flowing. Until, c.08:00 a #92 Green Sandpiper flew silently, low overhead. Would have missed it completely if I had been facing the other way. Makes we wonder what else I miss. I checked the date and my...
  25. Bismarck Honeyeater

    Garden / Yard List 2023

    Made myself get out a bit earlier than of late. Rewarded when a pair of Shoveler flew, low overhead, North over the garden. My first and only record so far was of a very brief high flyover of a single bird in February of this year. Better views were definitely desired. This mornings duo did the...
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